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Best show phlox, Miss Emily Smith if I 00 



Best show pinks Miss Emily Smith 1 00 



Bist !-h«)W diililias, !^Irs. D. Huntley, Appleton 1 00 



Best floral design. Mrs. L L. Randall, Appleton 2 00 



Best display cut flowers, Miss Ella While, Appletou 2 00 



Second hest, Miss Emily Smitii ICO 



Best show geraniums, Mrs. F. Proctor 1 00 



Second best, ]Mrs S. Ryan, Applelon 50 



Best show fuchsias, Mrs. F. Proctor 1 00 



Second best, Mrs. S. Ryan 50 



Best show begonias. Mrs. A. H. Birch, Appleton 1 00 



Second best, Mrs. H. ]M Jones, Appleton 50 



Best c:illa in bloom, Mrs. II. Dickins'^n, Appleton 1 00 



Best cactus in bloom, Mrs. S. Ryan 1 00 



Best .show foliage plants, Mrs. C Richmond, Appleton 1 00 



Second best, Mrs. G^o. I. Brewster, Appleton 50 



Best show house plants, Mrs. S. Ryan 2 00 



Second best, Mrs. Knox 1 00 



Best show wild flowers. Miss F. Huntley 2 00 



Best show ferns, Miss F. Huntley 1 00 



Best show green-house plants, W. H. Rogers 5 00 



MEETING AT THE STATE FAIR. 



Fond du L.\c, Wis., September 28, 1881. 



A call was i.s3ued by the president, for a meeting of the State 

 Horticultural Society, to be held in the Horticultural Hall on the 

 fair grounds at 8 P. M. of September 28. 



At the appointed hour, the society was called to order by the 

 president, who briefly stated that it was customary to meet on 

 this evening of fair week and spend a short time in talking over 

 the observations made and the peculiarities of the season, and 

 thus, if possible, to derive some profit or encouragement from 

 one another's experience. 0?ring to the abundant crop of fruit last 

 season, we had but little reason to expect a crop the present one, and 

 for one, he was agreeably disappointed to see so good a show of fruit 

 on the tables. This is the more remarkable, when we consider 

 that, in aldition to the great yield of fruit the previous season, 

 the winter had been a very Fevere one, commencing earlier than 

 usual, and was marked bv long continued and extreme cold. 

 The conditions had been so unfavorable that before the sea.son 

 opened we had good reason to fear a greater destruction of our 

 trees than we had ever experienced before. Much damage was 

 done, but we have occasion to congratulate ourselves that our 

 fears were not fully realized. While many of our trees were in- 



